E3 - Rather than turning left at the top of Sutton
Court Road when travelling north it is suggested that this service
turns right up Heathfield Terrace avoiding the traffic queues that
form on the junction of Chiswick High Road and Acton Lane

E11 - This service, which currently runs between
Ealing and Greenford could be extend to run along Bollo Lane, through
Chiswick Business Park to terminate at Chiswick Post Office

H91 - This route would no longer travel along Wellesley
Road but remain on the Chiswick High Road up to Chiswick Roundabout

27 - The route would be extended down Wellesley
Road to a new terminus in Chiswick Business Park

272 - This service, rather than going straight
through to Grove Park along Sutton Court Road would now travel down
Chiswick Lane and the A316, along Burlington Lane and through to
Strand on the Green. At Kew Bridge it would turn left up Chiswick
High Road completing a circular route

392 - A new route which would travel from Acton
Town Hall, down Bollo Lane and through Chiswick Business Park to
Brentford

440 - The route which currently terminates at Stamford
Brook bus garage would now head south along Sutton Court Road and
the A316 to terminate at Staveley Road

Local councillors
are to be asked to consider a series of suggested changes to local bus
routes at the next Chiswick
Area Committee meeting on 10th December.

A report
to be presented at the meeting gives a comprehensive overview of currently
plans for the development of bus routes around Chiswick.

The
report reveals that, despite lobbying from the Council's transport department,
there is little chance that the E3 route will revert to using single decker
buses.

London Buses
have ruled out reversion to single-deckers due to contractual arrangements
and the fact that smaller buses would provide inadequate capacity in the
Greenford-Acton sector without further increases in service frequency.
The Council has no power to force a change of bus type.

The Council
also proposed splitting the route at Acton, which would have allowed single
deckers to be used on the Acton-Chiswick sector. Reducing the route length
in this way would have reduced bunching, which tends to be proportional
to route length. London Buses declined this proposal due to the numbers
of passengers who would have to transfer at Acton, and due to problems
with terminus space at that location.

Because these
suggested changes to reduce bunching on the E3 route have been ruled out
the Council is now suggesting that the E3 no longer runs up Sutton Lane
North. The change in light phasings at the junction with Chiswick High
Road since the closure of Chiswick Road has led to unacceptable queues.

Chiswick
(Business) Park has been in discussion with Ealing Council and London
Buses regarding a proposed extension of route E11 to serve Chiswick Park.
Funded by Chiswick Park’s s106 contributions, the extended route would
run via Popes Lane, Gunnersbury Lane and Bollo Lane to a new bus only
entrance to Chiswick Park that would be developed between the two level
crossings. The route would then either terminate at Chiswick Park or could
be extended to Chiswick town centre.

On the 94
route the popular routemaster buses are to be phased out next month. The
service was enhanced with additional frequencies from 1 February 2003,
marking an end to the unpopular former practice wherein some services
from Piccadilly short-ran to Shepherd’s Bush.

Proposals
are also being made to extend the controversial 272 bus route into Strand
on the Green by creating a 'Chiswick Circuit'. The probable route from
Grove Park would be via Hartington Road, Grove Park Road, Thames Road
and Strand on the Green. The route would then extend onto Chiswick High
Road and via Chiswick Roundabout to Chiswick Town Centre. Extension of
the route as described above would be dependent on Transport for London
signalising the Strand on the Green approach to the Kew Bridge junction.
This will probably happen in the 2004/5 financial year.

A new 392
route has been proposed to link the Golden Mile in Brentford with Chiswick
Business Park. However the Chiswick Area Committee voted to withhold the
use of s106 funds unless the route ran from Brentford via Chiswick Roundabout,
Gunnersbury Avenue and Gunnersbury Lane, Acton Town station and Bollo
Lane to Chiswick Park.

The changes
proposed would mean that nearly every home in the Chiswick area would
be less than 300m as the crow flies from the nearest bus stop. The Transport
for London target is 400m walking distance.
October 30, 2014